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Jonathan Turley
Personal blog · jonathanturley.orgpoliticsculture
Jonathan Turley writes JONATHAN TURLEY, a personal blog at jonathanturley.org about politics and culture. Since 2010, 82 different Hacker News readers have linked it 104 times, most often “Defamed by ChatGPT: Law professor libeled from whole cloth”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-01, and you can follow it by feed.
Rarely recommended · 2 of 40 sampled comments recommend it?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Jonathan Turley's blog for legal and free-speech arguments, especially on censorship, police conduct, surveillance and government power. Comments cite specific posts as sources for those points.
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Res ipsa loquitur - The thing itself speaks
Most-linked posts?
- Defamed by ChatGPT: Law professor libeled from whole cloth8 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2023-04-06
- Oklahoma, Texas, and Other Schools Join UChicago Alliance on Free Speech2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-12-13
- /2026/01/03/the-united-states-captures-nicolas-maduro-and-his-wife/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-01-03
- “Decolonising Math”: Durham U Asks Professors to Consider Race of Mathematicians2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-04-12
- /2013/05/11/why-the-fbi-doesnt-record-interrogations/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-08-02
- /2021/04/28/barnard-professor-triggers-free-speech-controversy-after-writing-about-detonating-and-gassing-white-people/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-08-11
- /2009/09/18/arizona-couple-sues-wal-mart-after-store-calls-the-police-on-them-for-developing-pictures-of-this-children-in-a-bathtub-and-the-children-are-taken-by-the-state/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-08-05
What Hacker News says?
Most people don't care about anti-white racism so much that they'd stop watching a TV they liked because of the choices of actors. That isn't evidence that it's not actually racism, the definition doesn't depend on viewer counts. Is there someone that has said this before? Oh boy, yes. Just search for 'racist maths' to find endless discussion of it. For instance here's Ontario editing maths textbooks to put woke non…
Comment linking /2022/04/11/decolonising-math-durham-university-asks-professors-to-consider-the-race-of-mathematicians-before-relying-on-their-work/
on “Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources”Submitted Members of Congress Go Silent Over Prior False Testimony On Surveillance as a story · 540 points
HN discussion> The law does not say that naked photos of (your or anyone else's) kids are inherently illegal, they have to actually be sexual in nature. But that depends on who looks at it. People have been arrested and (at least temporary) lost custody over their children because someone called the police over perfectly normal family photos. I remember one case a few years ago where someone had gotten into trouble because one p…
on “One Bad Apple”Submitted Chicago Faces 135% Incr in Carjackings So Legislator Seeks to Ban GTA as a story · 118 points
HN discussionNot all professional groups have ironclad unions and official rules that prohibit their victims from even knowing the result of the investigation. And most of them aren't allowed to shoot innocent people [1] or beat them to death [2] and suffer no consequences. It's one thing if you let the colleague slide on a minor infraction, it's another think when murder becomes minor infraction. That corrupts. One can not see…
on “How I Ended Up In Solitary After Calling 911 For Help”Submitted University of Oregon will monitor students' social media statements as a story · 104 points
HN discussionIf judges are in fact "immune to political pressure" then that's merely one less facet of the government that the public has any kind of oversight on. It's not really debatable that the current court is heavily pro-corporation/government power, though some blips against this trend can be observed, as you pointed out. In terms of sources: http://crooksandliars.com/susie-madrak/elizabeth-warren-warn... ; the quoted re…
Comment linking /2013/06/02/its-all-about-the-judges/
on “Reform Government Surveillance”Submitted Britain Moves to Criminalize Reading Extremist Material on the Internet as a story · 96 points
HN discussionI'll add Colin Kaepernick to the list for next time! I should also include things like the woman who lots her internship after she made a bad pro-BLM analogy: https://jonathanturley.org/2020/07/03/ima-stab-you-connectic... In my mind, "cancel culture" refers to the phenomenon where an outraged group (usually on social media) seeks to retaliate against someone over a (possibly inferred) political opinion. Firing unio…
Comment linking /2020/07/03/ima-stab-you-connecticut-woman-fired-over-pro-black-lives-matter-tiktok-video/
on “The Four Quadrants of Conformism”Submitted The FAA vs. Model Airplanes as a story · 91 points
HN discussion"So your position that "dead people have no privacy" is really false" - no, I strongly assert that my position here is appropriate and that you are mistaken. The relatives of the deceased can sue you for defamation damages to their reputation (e.g. the widow might assert that the claim about her deceased husband damages her own personal reputation, and if so, perhaps she would have standing but only as far as her ow…
Comment linking /2007/08/18/defaming-the-dead/
on “Tech companies are profiling us from before birth”Submitted “Decolonising Math”: Durham U Asks Professors to Consider Race of Mathematicians as a story · 80 points
HN discussionReminder that even accusations of abuse imagery will get you in cuffs and your children taken away (see article at the end) Linux truly is the last bastion of sanity. I am so glad that linux desktops took off and work as well as they do. Last thing I should be worrying about is if an employee at Microsoft or Apple decides their "automated system with no errors" decides that a hash collision or a picture of a baby is…
on “Apple plans to scan US iPhones for child abuse imagery”Submitted War on free speech: Politicians and commentators label war critics “traitors” as a story · 67 points
HN discussionSwat teams never shoot first? Wrong. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/25/jose-guerena-arizon... http://www.salon.com/2013/07/07/%E2%80%9Cwhy_did_you_shoot_m... http://jonathanturley.org/2013/02/21/connecticut-swat-team-r... http://www.businessinsider.com/9-horrifying-botched-police-r... http://rt.com/usa/swat-teenage-girl-hughley-906/
on “Scenes from a militarized America”Submitted Poll: Only 18 Percent of Germans Feel Free to Voice Views in Public (2019) as a story · 51 points
HN discussionProgressive activists get more air time than they have political power. It’s like how, if you watched the mainstream media before Super Tuesday, you would have thought Elizabeth Warren was a front runner for the nomination. But, like with the democratic primaries, voting tends to collapse the bubble. Concrete example of this. Progressive Asian organizations attacked Andrew Yang for his normal Democrat take on the po…
Comment linking /2021/05/27/brandeis-dean-declares-yes-all-white-people-are-racists/comment-page-1/
on “Medium sees employee exits after CEO publishes ‘culture memo’”Submitted Roughly 80% of Grades Given at Harvard Are in the 'A' Range as a story · 43 points
HN discussionEven more on point: ALWAYS record interactions with the FBI: http://jonathanturley.org/2013/05/11/why-the-fbi-doesnt-reco... http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130516/18383623114/your-w... http://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2013/05/10/beware-fbi-whe... http://www.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/national/20070402_FBI_Me...
Comment linking /2013/05/11/why-the-fbi-doesnt-record-interrogations/
on “Did Goldman Overstep in Criminally Charging Its Ex-Programmer?”Submitted Canada Blocks Citizenship for Russian Conviction for Criticizing Ukrainian War as a story · 37 points
HN discussionIf your blood isn't already boiling here are other examples: http://jonathanturley.org/2013/04/07/the-rise-of-debtors-pri...
Comment linking /2013/04/07/the-rise-of-debtors-prisons-in-the-us/
on “A debtors’ prison in Mississippi”Submitted Robotic "Companions" Are Testing the Scope of Privacy and Sexual Freedom as a story · 29 points
HN discussionRight, largely peaceful. https://jonathanturley.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/CNN-He... I happen to be of controversial opinion that the lives of normal people are more important than those of lying politicians, who provoke the violence among the former for their own political gains and profit.
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on “Ron Paul locked out of his Facebook page”Submitted Tech Trojan Horse: How the Senate Is Poised to Codify Censorship of Social Media as a story · 21 points
HN discussionI don’t think that’s correct. As long as you didn’t collude in the illegal act, it’s legal in the entire US. Not sure about other countries. This came up most recently in the Manning/ Snowden leaks as while the leaks were illegal, using the info is not illegal. There was a lot of press and here’s a decent post by a law professor explaining legality, https://jonathanturley.org/2016/10/17/cnn-it-is-illegal-for-... Dat…
Comment linking /2016/10/17/cnn-it-is-illegal-for-voters-to-possess-wikileaks-material/
on “Harvesting LinkedIn data for fun and profit”Submitted Project Veritas Wins Victory Against New York Times in Defamation Action as a story · 21 points
HN discussionA couple of stories about one notorious Florida HOA Man jailed over brown sod: https://jonathanturley.org/2008/10/12/putting-the-prude-back... EMTs finish heart attack victim's sod job so he'll go to the ER: http://www.ccfj.net/HOAFLFirefFinLawnw.html
Comment linking /2008/10/12/putting-the-prude-back-into-prudente-florida-man-jailed-for-failure-to-sod-lawn/
on “Avoid buying in HOA neighborhoods (2014)”Submitted The Press Falls to Another Record Low in Public Trust as a story · 19 points
HN discussionIt is a slam dunk case. If you read all the articles for the wealth tax, they argue it isn't a direct tax simply because nobody knows what a direct tax is. Or that the tax actually taxes income. Both of those are wrong. Wealth tax is a direct tax, since it is paid by an individual on their possessions, rather than any transaction. The constitution only allows a direct tax on INCOME, not possessions. If I have 100 mi…
Comment linking /2019/02/20/reductio-ad-absurdum-a-response-to-professor-bruce-ackerman/
on “Elizabeth Warren Came Up with a Plan to Break Up Big Tech”Submitted Supreme Court Rules That Pre-Miranda Silence Can Be Used Against Defendant as a story · 19 points
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